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September 18, 1915, 
THE HENYARD 
Trouble With Ducks. 
I am trying to raise my first family of 
(lucks. It is a small family at best, and 
has grown smaller. What is the mat¬ 
ter with a duck when he keels over and 
dies without any reason? What is the 
best thing to feed them? B. J. 
New York. 
It is impossible to tell just what is 
the cause of trouble without more data, 
but it looks like too much sun. I judge 
so because I used to lose ducklings when 
I was a beginner just as you describe 
and am sure (now) that they were sun- 
struck. Young ducks must have plenty 
of shade. One of the best feeds for duck¬ 
lings for the first few days is rolled oats, 
slightly moistened, with a little fine grit. 
Sand will do if you cannot get chicken 
grit. Gradually change to a variety of 
ground grains, whatever you can con¬ 
veniently get. They should have some¬ 
thing in the line of vegetable food mixed 
with the mash in order to do their best 
and after two weeks some meat scrap 
should be mixed with the mash. Some 
put in a pinch of salt but care should 
be taken not to let any lumps get in. A 
little ground charcoal occasionally is sup¬ 
posed to help keep them healthy. A good- 
sized run and plenty of clean water com¬ 
pletes about all that I think is absolute¬ 
ly necessary. w. H. n. 
Care of Young Pheasants. 
Will you give me some advice on care 
of young pheasants after hatching? 
What is the period of incubation? 
Woodstock, Va. E. h. a. 
In some parts of Virginia the ruffed 
grouse is called pheasant. Does E. II. A. 
mean this or the Mongolian pheasant? 
Little has been written on the raising 
of young ruffed grouse, but many recent 
articles in the magazines have told how 
to raise Mongolian pheasants. The ar¬ 
ticles differ in many details, but for both 
birds they may be summed up in the gen¬ 
eral rule to treat them about like young 
turkeys or guineas ill the same locality. 
It will be better to keep them shut up 
with the hen for a few days, until they 
learn to come when she calls. The food 
should be more varied than for young 
chicks and should contain a larger pro¬ 
portion of meat. Some of the prepared 
pheasant foods are said to contain a 
large amount of dried insects. Young 
Mongolian pheasants soon learn to catch 
grasshoppers if these are numerous. If 
the birds are to be kept in yards it is 
necessary to be sure that these are well 
drained, and that rats are kept out as 
much as possible. The food should con¬ 
sist of various grains, some green stuff and 
some form of meat, which is of good qual¬ 
ity (that is, not tainted). Take care to 
feed about all the birds can use, but not 
to overfeed. Where the birds have free 
range, all that is necessary after the first 
few days is to give them a little grain 
once or twice a day to keep them in the 
habit of coming to some one place for a 
part of their feed. Mongolian pheasants 
do best where they can hide in tall grass 
and feed in the edges of the meadows 
close by. They like marshes which are 
partly grown up to bushes, and the rest 
grassy, but they go to some dry hill to 
pass the night. A. c. w. 
Wayne County, N. Y. 
A Sweet Clover Crank. 
In answer to the articles of E. L. M. 
and O. W., on page 1001, would say that 
all of my horses, cows, hogs and poul¬ 
try are Sweet-clover fed, as I do not al¬ 
low anything else to grow on my entire 
farm, and you never saw nicer stock than 
mine, all plump and fat. And why 
shouldn’t they be, when Sweet clover 
contains more protein than any other for¬ 
age (see report from the N. ,T. State 
Experimental Station on page 984) ? I 
am getting more and better eggs than 
ever before. E. L. M.’s hens must have 
spent a day or two in the family sugar 
box. I have never had any trouble with 
eggs, butter or milk, and very few, if any, 
have had any more Sweet clover exper¬ 
ience than I, but of course mine is of 
a strain that has been cultivated for 16 
years in the Western States, where it is 
one of their principal forage crops. I 
would not give a cent a bushel for wild 
Sweet clover seed, and do not allow it to 
grow on the roads next to my farm. I 
would not have paid $15 per bushel for 
all of my Sweet clover seed if I had 
thought that the wild was any good. O. 
W. says it has a “coarse branching stalk 
four or five feet high,” but if he would 
cut it at the proper time it would never 
grow higher than 30 inches. If he does 
THE RURATi NRW-YORKER 
not grow seed he can cut it three times 
a year, and get a large quantity of hay, 
and of better quality than from any other 
legume, and none of his stock will touch 
anything else if they can get Sweet clover 
if cut when young and tender, but if 
allowed to get coarse and woody it would 
be exactly like all other hay under like 
conditions. I cut a large crop of nice 
tender hay in June, about two weeks be¬ 
fore blooming, and then a crop of seed in 
August, as the seed crop is more valua¬ 
ble. A. BLOOMINGD ALE. 
New York. 
Sweet Clover Notes. 
Was it the Hope Farm man that set 
out Alfalfa plants? So did I. We set 
them 3x4 feet (Grimm’s Alfalfa, two year 
plants) kept well hoed, nice solid clumps, 
but the deer have kept them eaten within 
an inch of the ground. I set out Sweet 
clover plants on this ground, that stand 
seven feet high. I shall cut these a lit¬ 
tle later carefully resetting one year seed¬ 
lings over this ground. Our stock readily 
eat Sweet clover when cut young. Is 
there any danger in feeding, with judg¬ 
ment, freshly cut, to hogs, calves and 
horses? We have seen none as yet. 
Connecticut. M. w. B. 
Sweet Clover and Poultry. 
I seeded Sweet clover in my poultry 
yard last Spring and turned the chickens 
on it when about 10 inches high. About 
40 per cent, of the eggs smelt and tast¬ 
ed very strongly of the clover, so much 
as to be inedible. We cut the clover and 
fed it green to the dairy cows, and, like 
your correspondent, banished it from the 
poultry yard. S. H. H. 
Pennsylvania. 
The Australian Egg-laying Contest. 
The final report of the South Austral¬ 
ian, 1914-15, egg laying competition pre¬ 
sents some features of interest to Amer¬ 
ican poultry men. By far the greater 
number of entries were of White Leg¬ 
horns, indicating the popularity of that 
breed in the Antipodes; 340 hens in the 
section devoted to light breeds laid 66,- 
748 eggs, or an average of 196.3 eggs per 
hen. Much was made of size of eggs, 
those pens whose eggs did not average 
two ounces each in weight being disqual¬ 
ified. This resulted in disqualifying 10 
pens of White Leghorns and many other 
birds in the individual contests. The 
highest individual score (278 eggs) was 
made by a White Leghorn. 
Never in a long experience, it is stated, 
have food prices risen so rapidly and to 
such an extreme height. The annual 
food cost per hen amounted to $1.75, 
leaving a profit over cost of food of $2.04. 
The foods used were simple, consisting 
of wheat, pollard, bran, Lucerne (Alfal¬ 
fa), and meat meal. Maize (corn) is 
spoken of as valuable for occasional feed¬ 
ing, particularly in Winter, apparently 
showing that Australian hens are not as 
exclusively corn-fed as their American 
sisters are apt to be. The director 
speaks highly of the value of charcoal 
for fowls at all ages and also commends 
Epsom and Glauber salts as food ad¬ 
juncts rather than as medicine. 
Director Laurie lays great emphasis 
upon the necessity of eliminating broodi¬ 
ness in Leghorns by selection in breeding. 
He regards broodiness as a distinct, here¬ 
ditary character, in the Mendelian sense, 
a masked character most likely to reap¬ 
pear at the natural reproductive season, 
but little, if at all, affected by food. 
Years of testing have convinced him that 
the best layers exhibit a desire to brood. 
He also believes that broodiness is trans¬ 
mitted equally through male and female 
lines and that non-broodiness is an or¬ 
dinary “recessive” character. Breeding 
from "immature stock is condemned, hens 
of two seasons laying being considered as 
of the best age for breeding. That high 
egg production is transmitted through the 
male side is also stated, with the declara¬ 
tion that unless the male bird in a breed¬ 
ing pen were the son of a high producer 
the progeny would, as a rule, be poor 
layers. This has been taught in America, 
but Director Laurie claims priority of 
observation in this respect. M. B. D. 
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